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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a threeday mourning period for Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator who died on Tuesday after contracting COVID19.

The final landmines on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic have been cleared, Britain said on Tuesday, nearly 40 years after they were laid by Argentine forces when they seized the British territory.

Germany's health ministry has approached the military for help in ensuring safe storage of potential vaccines against COVID19, a spokesman for the defence ministry in Berlin said on Tuesday.

Ethiopian troops have seized an airport in the northern Tigray region during an offensive against local leaders who have defied Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's authority, stateaffiliated TV said on Tuesday.

The Internal Market Bill is designed to protect trade between Britain's four nations after Brexit. It contains clauses ministers say are needed to protect Northern Ireland's delicate status as part of the United Kingdom, but would also break international...

China's efforts to block Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organization (WHO) during the coronavirus pandemic will only increase the world's hostility towards the country, the island's premier said on Tuesday.

Brazil's health regulator has suspended a clinical trial for China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine citing a severe adverse event, surprising the trial organisers who countered there had been a death but it was unrelated to the vaccine.

There were almost 59,000 COVID19 patients in hospitals across the United States on Monday, the country's highest number ever of inpatients being treated for the disease.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday he expected the rate of positive tests for the novel coronavirus to continue rising in the state into winter.

U.S. Housing Secretary Ben Carson tested positive for COVID19 on Monday, U.S. news outlets reported, the latest victim in another coronavirus outbreak affecting the White House and top advisers to President Donald Trump.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has tested negative for COVID19 and will end the period of selfisolating he underwent as a precaution after a contact met with a person who was found to have been infected with the disease, a spokesman said.

Mir Shakeel-ur-Rehman's Jang Group, which includes some of Pakistan's biggest newspapers and the Geo television network, has frequently been critical of Prime Minister Imran Khan's government as well as the country's powerful military.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Group of 20 member states to press Saudi Arabia to free activists detained unlawfully and provide accountability for past abuses ahead of the virtual G20 summit in the kingdom this month.

Hungary will close secondary schools, universities and restaurants and will impose an extended nighttime curfew as of midnight on Tuesday to curb a fast rise in coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Monday on his Facebook page.

The call from the Centre for Presidential Transition advisory board comes as the General Services Administration has yet to formally recognise Democrat Joe Biden as the president-elect.

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed replaced his army chief, the head of intelligence and the foreign minister on Sunday as the military continued a fiveday old offensive in the restive Tigray region with a new round of air strikes.